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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN num: 9781593761462
ISBN number: 1593761465
Label: Shoemaker & Hoard
Manufacturer: Shoemaker & Hoard
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Page Count: 304
Printing Date: April 06, 2007
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During his tenure as US Poet Laureate, Robert Hass revived the popular nineteenth-century tradition of including poetry in our daily newspapers. “Poet's Choice” ultimately became a nationally syndicated column appearing in dozens of papers across the country. Every week, Hass would marry poets and poetry to headlines and holidays.
Proceeding in sequence from early 1997 to the start of the millennium, we ride the rhythms of Hass's remarkable musings. From the living legends to the long-gone, Hass resurrects voices of many who might otherwise remain neglected. Nearly a hundred poets are profiled — William Butler Yeats, Wallace Stevens, Rita Dove, Robert Frost, Sonia Sanchez, Donald Justice, Margaret Atwood, John Ashbery, Adrienne Rich, Michael Ondaatje, and Louis Glück all make appearances here. And along with classic works, we're introduced to a host of emerging poets and to translations of such luminaries as Yehuda Amichai, Czeslaw Milosz, and Jaime Sabines. With his assured yet unimposing words, Hass awakens our understanding of the great canon of poetry.
In his introduction, Hass observes how the columns collected here seem to encapsulate a time and world quite different from the one that developed after 9/11. And so this collection serves as both remembrance and reminder of a period in our history, and as a celebration of the poets whose poems transcend time.
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Hass did a great job during his tenure as poet laureate, and as the very first and best of the Washington Post's Poet's Choice columnists. He found interesting poets, filled in enough of their background, and made relevant choices from their work.
Even someone fairly familiar with contemporary poetry can find something new and interesting here.
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Robert Hass has a most gentle and generous intelligence. You can experience this in each one of his brief literary columns introducing a poem, poet or poetic theme. His love of language and knowledge of poetry inspires as much as it touches. I savor each small essay the way a chocolate lover would cherish an elegant truffle. His honesty cuts through sentiment and the historical aspect of each column connects me to my own past. As with any of Hass' books, I cannot recommend this one highly enough. I searched it out and bought it the day a friend graciously told me of its publication. You might say, over the years, I have become a quiet Robert Hass addict, doubly satisfied these days by the publication of his book of poems, Time and Materials.
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